Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 53
“Whatever do you mean?” said the rich brother, “why, you have nothing to eat, and you are giving festivals!”
Who acts: you, rich brother · What happens: mean, say, have, eat, give · To what, where: Whatever, nothing, festivals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rich brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 have | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 why | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nothing | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 giving | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 giving | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 giving | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 giving | aux |
| 25 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 26 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 giving | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 giving | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | Whatever | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the rich brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · progressive | you | festivals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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